Graduation

This is a busy season as there are so many graduation parties to go to. Boy did I pick the wrong time to start a diet!! Well, this is always an extra crazy time for the parents for the kids graduating as they have all these events to go to plus trying to put on the graduation party. I still remember (dimly) my graduation party. I had just come back from Project Graduation and was pretty wiped out. It was nice to get to see all the family that came though. This put me in mind of the transition of high school graduation. Your life has been defined by school. In many cases, your closest friends have been there in school and many of your activities were defined by school or through school. It is what life is. Then all of a sudden it is over. You go on to college, or a job, or both. You make new friends and in some cases don't see much of those people you were spending every day with. While I still stay in some loose touch with some high school friends (thanks mostly to Facebook) I mostly count my closest friends from early life as friends made in college. Your adult life really starts after graduation and all the things that seemed so important in high school quickly begin to fade away. I think our graduation from this world will be much the same. A new life will begin and we will leave behind many of the people we knew here and the things that filled our lives. Right now we can't imagine life beyond now, but once we graduate, we will look back at the things that seemed so important to us and they will just fade away. We will be on to a new life that will be so much better, so much fuller, and full of much more fulfilling and exciting activities. Just a loose thought as I consider the graduates transitioning this spring.